Month: April 2012

London (Reuters) – new research suggests that neutrinos that seemed to violate a basic physical law to travel faster than the speed of light are, after all, within the universal speed limit. The last measurement of time of flight of the subatomic particles made by the Research Centre CERN in Geneva, for the Italian Gran Sasso laboratory contradicted a first reading on ultrafast speed reported last September, which caused great excitement in the scientific sphere. Since then, have increased the doubts about the original statements, especially after the news of the last month of the first conclusion of the so-called experiment OPERA could have been distorted by a defective cabling. “Evidence is beginning to point toward which the result of OPERA is born of a measuring device”, said Friday the director of research at CERN, Sergio Bertolucci, in a statement. The new analysis was performed by researchers working in an experiment separately called Icaro. The team used time-independent data and measured seven neutrinos in the beam of light sent from CERN. All of them produced a consistent time with the speed of light, the Research Center said. Many scientists had been sceptical about the original measurements, which missed the theory of special relativity by Albert Einstein in 1905, stating that nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light, a statement on which much of modern...

managua, 16 mar (EFE).-the Nicaraguan authorities in coordination with non-governmental agencies today began testing the human immunodeficiency (HIV) virus to people over 60 years, for the first time in this country. Coordinator of HIV prevention in the Nicaraguan Ministry of the family, Carmen Olivares, told reporters that such reviews practice them among elderly in order to “remove the myths that older adults do not have sex and Yes do not”. Tests for HIV were made within the framework of a fair called “older adults are people with rights”, held this Friday in Managua. “They (over 60) have the culture that having sex do not need protection, which makes them vulnerable to the epidemic of HIV”, he warned the officer. According to Olivares, the elderly are considered to be immune to HIV and noted that while there is at present a low rate of the elderly with this epidemic in Nicaragua, “it is because it is not HIV test”. The doctor of the clinic of integral attention to men of the non-governmental Centre for education and AIDS prevention (Cepresi), René Gutiérrez, told Efe that they proposed to carry out HIV tests to 400 people older than 60 years, of which accepted only 20 of them 12 women, and none were positive. Specialist indicated that in the last year Cepresi has made 1,000 HIV testing to different populations, of which 10%...

CARACAS (Reuters) – the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, arrived Friday night in oil country after surgery of new a cancerous tumor in Cuba that will require treatment of radiotherapy before competing for re-election in October. The military retired 57-year-old had announced at the end of the afternoon through the Twitter social network that began his return to Caracas, without giving details on his health. A source close to the case said that the military Hospital in Caracas was ready to receive it, although Chavez has not said if radiation therapy you will be applied in Cuba or in Venezuela. (Mario Naranjo report.) (Edited by Silene...

Malaga, 16 (EUROPA PRESS) The National Secretary of health and Social Affairs of the Popular Party, Jose Ignacio Echániz, has argued that a public health in a situation without resorting to formulas of copayment “ruinous” can be addressed and brought as an example the “intelligent measures” which in his view is taking the Government of Castilla – La Mancha, in which he is Health Minister. In statements to the media in Málaga, where he has participated in a meeting with Andalusian health professionals, Echániz has asked the Andalusian President, José Antonio Griñán, not accused the PP of wanting to introduce such measures and “giving account to the citizens of its management of public health”. “What we know through the patron saint of the pharmaceutical industry and the health services industry are nearly 3 billion euros”, emphasised. Echániz has emphasized that in “no Spanish autonomous community governed by the PP there is no copayment” and has defended how himself faced the “ruinous” situation of La Mancha health reach the autonomy Government last year. The Andalusian PP can be found with something like if you arrive to the Board, he added. In Castile – La Mancha have had to make adjustments, crop unproductive spending and we have been able to restore the delicate situation with clever measures, but without asking the citizens to do a contribution beyond that already make these...

New Delhi, 13 mar (EFE).-the Indian Government today revealed that over half (53 per cent) of the 330 million households of the Asian giant lack of a latrine, according to data from the new national census conducted during 2011. In a statement, the Ministry of the Interior stressed that the figure has improved with respect to the previous census, in 2001, when 64% of households in the country did not have a toilet. The Indian authorities launched an ambitious campaign, “Total Sanitation”, with the goal of building million household toilets, in the last decade but it is estimated that more than half of india’s population still defecating in the open air. “There are 60% (of the population) who defecates in the open air in the country, which has 700 million mobile…” “We build toilets but they are not used,” the Indian Minister of Rural development and hygiene, Jairam Ramesh said recently. According to the census data disseminated today, 67% of households have electricity – a figure 11 percentage points higher than the 2001–, while only 47% of households have direct access to running water. According to the study, also has been “an improvement” in recent years in the materials used for the construction of the houses of this emerging power....